How to Add Anchors Tags to Content and URLs

Purpose

Within this article, Allbound Administrator users will acquire the knowledge of incorporating anchor tags into their content to establish navigation and URL links to content headers.

Implementing ID Tags for Anchor Points

To enable the functionality of anchors, it is essential to include ID tags within the sections to which we intend the links to direct.

To include an anchor tag, follow these steps:

1. Access the content page and switch to the Text tab
2. Wrap the desired element(s) with a <div> tag containing a unique ID to define the anchor point

In the example below, anchor points are highlighted in bold:

<div id="loremIpsum"><strong>What is Lorem Ipsum?</strong></div>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum.
<div id="whyLorem"><strong>Why do we use it?</strong></div>
It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using 'Content here, content here', making it look like readable English. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for 'lorem ipsum' will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).
<div id="whereLorem"><strong>Where does it come from?</strong></div>
Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet..", comes from a line in section 1.10.32.

The standard chunk of Lorem Ipsum used since the 1500s is reproduced below for those interested. Sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 from "de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum" by Cicero are also reproduced in their exact original form, accompanied by English versions from the 1914 translation by H. Rackham.

 

Linking to Anchors

To create links to anchor points in the content, you can follow these steps:

1. Construct a navigational list within your content
2. Select the list value, then click on the Link icon
3. Enter "#" followed by the ID of the element you wish to navigate to. For example, you can enter "#whyLorem" to link to the "whyLorem" anchor point

Creating the URL with the Anchor Tag

To craft a URL that includes an anchor tag, you can follow these steps:

1. Copy the Permalink from the content page

2. Append "?#" followed by the ID of the anchor element you want to link to. For instance, if you want to link to the "whyLorem" anchor point, your URL would look like this:

   https://[InstanceURL]/engage/test-anchor-tags/?#whyLorem

If you still have questions, please reach out to your Customer Success Manager or Open a Support Ticket.